Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Psychologist Frank Farley of Temple University believes that taking conscious risk involves overcoming our instincts. He points out that no other animal intentionally puts itself in peril. "The human race is particularly risk taking compared with other species," he says. He describes risk takers as the Type T personality, and the U.S. as a Type T nation, as opposed to what Farley considers more risk-averse nations like Japan. He breaks it down further, into Type T physical (extreme athletes) and Type T intellectual (Albert Einstein, Galileo). He warns there is also Type T negative, that is, those...
...missing a certain amount of life." And it is by taking risks that we may flirt with greatness. "We create technologies, we make new discoveries, but in order to do that, we have to push beyond the set of rules that are governing us at that time," says psychologist Farley...
...good news is, if your child can adjust successfully to his new school, other things in his life will fall into place. Peter Sheras, a clinical psychologist who works with families as they struggle through school transitions, suggests that the best way to deal with the anxiety of that first day is to get your kids--no matter what age--inside their new school before it opens. Teachers are often happy to meet a student during those pre-opening days. At the very least, a careful look around school may prevent the mortification of getting lost on the first...
...take charge of Mom's and Dad's lives is a wrenching rite of passage for baby boomers, who in many ways are still struggling to grow up. "As a generation, we haven't seen much death, and we haven't experienced a great deal of hardship ourselves," says psychologist Mary Pipher, author of the best-selling book Reviving Ophelia and the recently published Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders (Riverhead Books, $24.95). "We weren't in a Depression. We weren't in World War II. For many baby boomers, this is the first really rough patch...
...life. Leigh Ann would often pick up and leave, and neighbors would gossip about problems at home. There had been family trouble in February 1994, when Mychelle, then 2 1/2, told a day-care worker that her father had sexually molested her. During the mental evaluations that followed, a psychologist said Barton "certainly was capable" of committing homicide. However, given Mychelle's age, it was difficult for state attorneys to build a solid case around her against Barton or prevent him from keeping custody of the kids. "It was disturbing enough to have a trained psychologist and competent prosecutors reporting...